ShoeBox App Turns Your iPhone Camera Into A Photo Scanner

NEW YORK -- A new smartphone app will help you transition your old paper photos into the digital age. Called ShoeBox, the free app lets you use your iPhone's camera as a photo scanner.

The iPhone app launched last week. An Android version is coming soon. ShoeBox comes as social media giant Facebook is preparing to launch its new "timeline" feature.

Timeline essentially turns user profiles into an online scrapbook for the most important moments of their lives. As such, it encourages users to add photos from their lives before Facebook. ShoeBox creator Rudy Adler says that's where ShoeBox comes in.

The app lets users rotate, crop, date and tag photos and share them with friends and family either through Shoebox or Facebook. The photos are also stored on 1000memories.com, the website of the startup behind ShoeBox. The website is also where ShoeBox users can go to control their privacy settings if they don't want their old photos shared publicly.

On Wednesday, publicly shared photos on the ShoeBox app included a torn black-and-white mugshot of a young man with a moustache and a ruddy-cheeked little girl under a Christmas tree.

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Comments

[Damaven]

03:57 PM on 11/04/2011

Everybody's making profound statements about its worth and blah, blah, blah. What difference does it make, it's FREE, no harm, no foul, no job needed [for the app]. No I don't own any part of Apple, but there's just too much complaining about anything and everything. It's FREE! Don't use it.

[LightShadow62]

08:52 PM on 11/03/2011

It is just another photo editing app, nothing more.

[Louis Bernardi]

06:49 PM on 11/03/2011

When I read the title "App breathes life into old photographs" I assumed it would be enhancing and attempting to fix / correct old photos after you get a picture of them.

[Scottl1971]

10:29 AM on 11/03/2011

I'm not sure I understand this. How is this different than just taking a picture of a print photograph with your iphone?

[brueso10]

01:10 PM on 11/03/2011

Not different at all from what I can see.

[proudloudlib]

01:24 PM on 11/03/2011

I was wondering that myself. I have some great shots of old black and white pictures of my dad.